page_title: List of suffragists and suffragettes
section_title: United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: List of suffragists and suffragettes / United Kingdom
context_page_description: This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals. Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. "Suffragette" in the British usage denotes a more "militant" type of campaigner, while suffragettes in the United States organized such nonviolent events as the Suffrage Hikes, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913, and the Silent Sentinels.
context_section_description: Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (1884–1957) – editor and feminist lecturer, officer of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
  Violet Aitken (1886–1987) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed, editor of The Suffragette
  Margaret Aldersley (1852–1940) – suffragist, feminist and trade unionist
  Mary Ann Aldham (1858–1940) – famously slashed a portrait in the Royal Academy in 1914
  Janie Allan (1868–1968) – suffragette activist and significant financial supporter of the WSPU; imprisoned for suffrage activities
  Doreen Allen (1879–1963) – militant suffragette
  Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964) – women's rights activist, pioneer policewoman, later involved in far right political activity
  Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (1844–1874) – early advocate of birth control, president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society
  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain
  Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
  Helen Archdale (1876–1949) – suffragette and journalist
  Jane Arthur (1827–1907) – educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage
  Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – suffragist, local politician, pacifist
  Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) – politician, socialite, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons
  Barbara Ayrton-Gould (1886–1950) – Labour politician and co-founder of the United Suffragists; jailed for her suffrage activities
  Sarah Jane Baines (1866–1951) – feminist and social reformer; jailed at least fifteen times
  Minnie Baldock (c. 1864 – 1954) – co-founded the first London branch of the WSPU
  Frances Balfour (1858–1931) – president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
  Florence Balgarnie (1856–1928) – British suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, temperance activist
  Rachel Barrett (1874–1953) – member of the WSPU; editor of The Suffragette
  Janet Barrowman (1879–1955) – Scottish member of the WSPU; jailed for her suffragist activities
  Dorothea Beale (1831–1906) – educational reformer, author, Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College
  Lydia Becker (1827–1890) – biologist and astronomer, founder and publisher of the Women's Suffrage Journal
  Edith Marian Begbie (1866–1932) – militant suffragette who was force-fed
  Mary Bell (1885–1943) – first Scottish women magistrate
  Sarah Benett (1850–1924) – Treasurer of the WFL and suffragette
  Ethel Bentham (1861–1931) – doctor, politician, member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
  Annie Besant (1847–1933) – socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule
  Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953) – member of the WSPU; jailed multiple times
  Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964) – co-founder of Women's Freedom League; jailed for her suffragist activities
  Catherine Hogg Blair (1872–1946) – Scottish suffragette and founder of the Scottish Women's Rural Institute, and member of the WSPU
  Violet Bland (1863–1940) – member of the WSPU, force-fed in prison
  Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – educationalist, artist, feminist, activist for women's rights
  Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953) – politician, chair of the Adult Suffrage Society, first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom
  Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973) – lawyer, member of the WSPU, RMS Titanic survivor
  Janet Boyd (1850–1928), militant suffragette and hunger-striker
  Jane Esdon Brailsford (1876–1937) – Scottish suffragette
  Agnes Brown (1866–1943) – Scottish suffragist and writer
  Annie Leigh Browne (1851–1936) – co-founder of College Hall, London and of Women's Local Government Society
  Constance Bryer (1870–1952) – suffragette
  Evaline Hilda Burkitt (1876–1955) – first suffragette to be force-fed
  Frances Buss (1827–1894) – headmistress, pioneer of women's education, member of the Kensington Society
  Josephine Butler (1828–1906) – feminist, author, social reformer conce
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